Dear list,
After getting some bug reports from Japanese users of our mixed Java /
C++ plug-in for an old non-Unicode Carbon application, I discovered a
reference Radar #5015600 in the Java 10.5 release notes:
"Java 1.5 uses ShiftJIS encoding when the primary language is Japanese
Description:
By default, Java 1.5 would use ShiftJIS encoding when the primary
language is set to Japanese. Now it uses UTF-8.
Resolution:
This problem is now fixed."
Can anyone explain why this was considered a problem that needed to be
fixed? It has broken our application on Leopard.
Why should Java's native encoding be different than the result from
CFStringGetSystemEncoding()? That did not change in Leopard - it still
is kCFStringEncodingMacJapanese on both 10.4.11 and 10.5.2. Shift_JIS
is the Java encoding that is closest to kCFStringEncodingMacJapanese.
UTF-8 is totally different!
Before trying to fix our application to deal with this incompatible
change in Leopard, it would be great to understand the rationale for
the change. At the moment it sure seems like a bug in Leopard rather
than a bug fix.
Thanks for any insight!
Michael
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